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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 28, 1927

Page

13

Athens Commencement for Eighth Grade Graduates

Athens county plans a September 1 commencement in Ewing hall for eighth grade graduates from numerous townships and schools. The program honors diplomas for dozens of students led by groups from Albany, Alexander, Hickory Grove, Hebbardsville, and many others with a long list of names and homerooms.

Albany Village Virgil Bobo Berton Elliott John Eawin Greene Edward Greene Harold Johnson Lorene Parker Sidney Parker Harry Williams Floyd Andrews Pearl Collins Helen Davis Alta Davis Caryl McVay Irene McVay Bertena van Dyke Adria Woodyard Mary Reyes Alexander Township Center Letha Patrick Mary Haning Hickory Grove Loretta Lowry Golden Clara Barnett Paul Stotts Raymond Hooper Rae Ahle Dale Jones Mary Robinson Hooper Ridge Elsie Batley Vincent Batley Anna Sayers Cone Gertrude Davis Delia Mansfield Nougal Preston Byers Marie Howard Guy Richardson Amesville Harley Bennett Letha Brown Paul Hines Russell Binns Helen Hixon Arthur Hines Orville Jones Margery MecKinley Éasker Thompson Priscills Wells Julia White

Diploma to Honor Dying Girl in County Commencement

Parents of Nellie Hixon will receive her eighth grade diploma posthumously at the county commencement in Ewing auditorium on September 1. Nellie, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hixon, completed Green's Run school work before her death after the spring term. Certificates will be awarded to her parents along with 287 others. other names listed include Beebs Gladys Moore, Mabel Yarsons, Gillan Taylor, Eula Black, Clarence Caldwell, Faye Fulton, Herold Pierce, Fern Starkey, and more from Utica Bilbert New England and surrounding areas.

Athough Nellie Hixon Ewing Auditorium Nellie William Hixon Green’s Run

Chinook to Lead One Last Mush Toward Antarctic Pole

A long-lived sled dog Chinook from Arthur Walden’s kennels, famed for top Arctic and Mt. Washington feats, is set for a final Antarctic run with Commander Byrd. The team faces epic ice, wind, and machine-age hazards as Byrd plans a Ross Barrier takeoff and snowbound landings.

Arthur T. Walden Mt. Washington Walden Byrd

Missouri woman bakes from wheelchair for 47 years

Miss Roxie Irene McCormick, paralyzed at age six, has run a home cake baking business in Missouri. She bakes about 1200 cakes a year, mixing and icing from her wheelchair, starting during World War I to aid the Allies. She sources materials wholesale, tests recipes by finger, and emphasizes precise measuring despite her disability.

Ansas City Roxie Irene Mccormick Red Cross France Women's Relief Corps Miss McCormick Christian Kokoksky Brance

Size Em Up Possibilities For The White House

Speculation surfaces on future First Ladies with names like Alice Roosevelt Longworth Mrs Lowden Mrs Johnson Mrs Dawes Mrs Hoover and Mrs Borah each praised for attributes from beauty to intellect and wit as hot political chatter swirls.

Alice Roosevel Longworth Lowden Johnson Dawes Hoover Borah

Tourists in Yukon Trek Old Routes to Skagway

Tourists heading to British Columbia and Alaska have surged with at least one steamer landing daily at Skagway for inland trips along historic gold rush trails. In 1926 Skagway welcomed over 7000 visitors and the pace is expected to rise, as travelers view White Pass and nearby sites from trains and steamers while witnessing Klondike mining methods in operation. A second brief item notes Sofia Radminsky, a dairy farm proprietor from Malystok, confessing to the murder of over sixty children in Warsaw.

British Columbia Alaska Skagway White Pass Lake la Barge Thirty-Mile River White Horse Canyon Five Finger Rapide White Horse Klondike

Detroit Prominent Men Plan Chateau Voyageurs Air Club

A Detroit business and professional group raises about 1.9 million dollars to buy Dr. Olds estate on Grosse Isle and establish Chateau Voyageurs, an aviation country club with a 580 acre airport, multiple runways, hangars, and a dirigible terminal. Edwin Denby serves as commodore with leaders including William B. Stout and C. F. Kettering guiding the project to become an international aviation hub linking Detroit, London, and the United States-Canada port.

Olds Grosse Isle Detroit River America Chateau Voyageurs State of Michigan Chasteu Voyageurs Destruit London England Boys Fever Mfsids Est Rea Navy William B. Stout Joseph L. Boyar Henry B. DuPont C. F. Kettering Charles S. Flint New York Alletors United States Canada

Desert wanderer found after vast wire line effort

Calcutta Lewis Dradety traveled 8000 titles from Mase shester England to Calcutte, went missing in the desert after leaving Aleppo. He finally wired home by laying down wire. Over 700 miles of roadway yielded no trace of any sign until recovery.

Calcutta Lewis Dradety Mase Shester England Calcutte Automobile Aleppo

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